In order to fully appreciate the importance of the large cooperatives compared with the total number of Italian cooperatives, table 9 gives an overall picture of Italian ... 17% (depending on the total used) of the number of Italian cooperatives, but they account ... Table 8. Italy’s largest cooperatives in 2004 (>500 employees) Number of coops Turnover (in millions of Euros) No. of members* employees Manufacturing Food & Drink

Italy and United Kingdom leading the way. In terms of the technology sectors ... % of the total. In third place, with 14 % of projects, was the food and drinks sector, covering waste treatment, food packaging and labelling and eco-innovative food chain logistics. Finally ... germany, italy, spain

industries (like ICT, logistics, marketing). This character of R&D makes benchmarking ... see above) and better logistics are central to such innovations. A chain ... reduction (also through better use of ICT and logistics) as well upgrading waste